Strengthen your Well-Being through Spiritual Fitness

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Experiences such as traumatic events during your military career can lead to questioning your values and trying to make sense of what happened. Spirituality can help you cope by connecting you to something bigger than yourself. For some, it may be a relationship with your unit, family or nature. For others, it may be a relationship with a Higher Power and religious practices. However you express it, spirituality can create values and beliefs to give life meaning.

Benefits of Spirituality

Spirituality can help you cope with stress in all stages of military life. For example, through meditation or prayer, you may feel at peace and find more purpose in life. It can:

Provide equal support for service members with different spiritual practices. For example, allow time to practice Tai Chi or attend religious service.

Work with chaplains to help unit members cope with psychological health concerns.

Give service members chances to share their spirituality with peers.

About 700 military chaplains across all military branches are ready and available to help service members become or stay spiritually fit. Call Military OneSource at 800-362-9647 to find the chaplain nearest you.